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My first conversation with Islamic State was about my reporting. I had just shared an article I'd written about the terrorist group recruiting Western fighters on my Twitter when I saw that someone using the Twitter handle Abu Omar had also posted a link to the piece on his own account. His profile photo unabashedly displayed the black and white IS flag. As I clicked around his profile, I received a Twitter message from him:

The independent Tunisian news website Inkyfada was hit with a cyberattack on April 4, 2016, hours after publishing a Panama Papers report that mentioned Tunisian politician Mohsen Marzouk, accordingto statements published by Inkyfada on its Facebook page. During the attack Inkyfada's website was hacked and its content manipulated, with hackers attempting to publish names not listed in the Panama Papers investigation,including former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki,the statement said.

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Once upon a time, a journalist never gave up a confidential source. When someone comes forward, anonymously, to inform the public, it's better to risk time incarcerated than give them up. This ethical responsibility was also a practical and professional necessity. If you promise anonymity, you're obliged to deliver. If you can't keep your word, who will trust you in the future? Sources go elsewhere and stories pass you by.

China, rated as the eighth most censored country in the world, in a report released by CPJ today, has long had a strong line of defense against free speech online. Its Golden Shield Project, launched by the Ministry of Public Security in 1998, relies on a combination of technology and personnel to control what can be expressed and accessed behind the Great Firewall of China.

New York, April 9, 2015--The French-language global TV network TV5Monde was disrupted for three hours on Wednesday night by hackers claiming to belong to the militant group Islamic State, according to news reports. The hackers seized control of 11 channels as well as the network's website and social media accounts, the reports said. TV5Monde restored its signal by Thursday morning, but said TV broadcasts would take longer to return to normal.

The German magazine Der Spiegelreported this week that the
U.S. National Security Agency hacked into the internal communication system of Al-Jazeera.
If the report is accurate, the targeted hacking of a news organization
represents an assault on press freedom qualitatively different from -- and in
many ways more disquieting than -- the perils posed by pervasive, but unfocused,
surveillance.

One day, every journalism school in the United States and
beyond will offer a full three-credit, 15-week course in digital safety, along
with more advanced classes. But that day has not yet come. Only a year ago, Alysia
Santo reported in the Columbia Journalism Review that no
American journalism school offered formal digital safety training. A number
of groups, including CPJ, have tried to fill the void with digital security
guides. This week, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
added to the resource stockpile with the publication of a guide that I've
written, Digital
Security Basics for Journalists.

Not every media company is as tempting a target for
hackers as The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal. Not every
company can afford high-priced computer security consultants, either. Is there
anything that everyday reporters and their editors can learn about protecting
themselves, based on the revelatory details the Times and other targets made public last week?

Alhamdulillah! Finally,
a technologist designed a security tool that everyone could use. A
Lebanese-born, Montreal-based computer
scientist, college student, and activist named Nadim Kobeissi had developed a
cryptography tool, Cryptocat, for the
Internet that seemed as easy to use as Facebook Chat but was presumably far
more secure.